| Description |
x, 324 p. : map ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Pitt Latin American series
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index. |
| Contents |
Ethnic identity and politics in the Central Andes : the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albo -- Linking movement and electoral politics : Ecuador's indigenous movement and the rise of Pachakutik / Jennifer Collins -- Engendering Andean politics : the paradoxes of women's movements in neoliberal Ecuador and Bolivia / Amy Lind -- Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski -- State, esprit mafioso, and armed conflict in Colombia / Ricardo Vargas -- Collateral damage : the U.S. "War on Drugs" and its impact on democracy in the Andes / Coletta A. Youngers -- State, elites, and the response to insurgency : some preliminary comparisons between Colombia and Peru / Philip Mauceri -- Human rights in the Andes : the defensoria del pueblo / Mark Ungar -- State building, state dismantling, and financial crises in Ecuador / Liisa L. North -- Struggle for hegemony in Venezuela : poverty, popular protest, and the future of democracy / Margarita Lopez Maya and Luis E. Lander -- Tense relationship between democracy and violence in Colombia, 1974-2001 / Francisco Gutierrez Sanin and Luisa Ramirez Rueda -- State-making against democracy : the case of Fujimori's Peru / Jo-Marie Burt. |
| Subject |
Andes Region -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Democracy -- Andes Region
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Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Ethnic identity.
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Social change -- Andes Region -- History.
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Violence -- Andes Region -- History.
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Drug traffic -- Andes Region.
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| Added Author |
Burt, Jo-Marie.
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Mauceri, Philip.
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| ISBN |
0822958287 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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0822942259 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
UKM bA3U4065 |
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